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I suggest a short reading of one of the major drivers of sport and for the greatest sporting event of recent history.

Ode to Sport

I Oh

sport, pleasure of the Gods, essence of life! Have appeared suddenly in through the gray light that stirs the thankless task of modern existence as radiant messenger of the past years, those years in which humanity smiled. And on top of the mountains, has landed a glow of dawn, and rays of light have illuminated the dark trees.

II

sport Oh, you Beauty! You are the architect of this building which is the human body and can become abject and sublime, as degraded by vile passions and healthily grown by the effort. There is beauty out of proportion and balance and you are the incomparable master of one and other because engender harmony, rhyme, movement, grace, transform the force and infuse power in what is weak.

III

O sport, you're the Justice! Perfect equality, pursued in vain for the men in their social institutions, is stable around you. Nobody could be more than a single centimeter height you can jump in a minute how long it can run. His physical and moral forces combined, they determine for themselves the limits of their success.

IV

sport Oh, you're the Audacity! All sense of muscular effort is summarized in one word: daring. What are the muscles, which feel strong and growing fast and agility and strength, if not to dare? But the audacity to breathe, it has nothing of the reckless adventurer, who plays it all to chance. It is a prudent and thoughtful audacity.

IX

Oh Sport, you are the Peace! Establish friendly relations among peoples, bringing them into the cult of force controlled, organized and self-possessed. Through you, the world's youth learn to respect and, thus, the diversity of national virtues becomes a source of emulation, generous and peaceful.

Do you know who is?